Different people has different reason to enter cryptocurrency mining.
What is your goal or behaviour in mining cryptocurrencies? You want to accumulate:
Fiat, exchanged from cryptocurrencies mined
1 votes
· 0 satoshis
BTC (solely or mainly) for HODLing, exchanged from cryptocurrencies mined
0 votes
· 0 satoshis
ETH (solely or mainly) for HODLing, exchanged from cryptocurrencies mined
0 votes
· 0 satoshis
Each respective cryptocurrency for HODLing (exchanged only as needed to cover costs)
0 votes
· 0 satoshis
Each respective cryptocurrency for trading (compounded portfolio actively traded for gains, not HODLing)
1 votes
· 567 satoshis
Mining just for the sake of mining; I'm just enthusiastic of cryptocurrencies or mining, but I don't know what I want to do with the accumulated cryptocurrencies
I suggest you would get better response by asking not 'why we mine' but rather 'why should anyone mine' because personalized answers may conflict with anonymity preferred here.
Seems I only caught half the point you're making here. I thought "you" as opposed to "anyone" (rationalising) is still used in conducting anonymous research. Can you help elaborate?
I do not mine, but I would guesstimate few miners are willing to simply volunteer such info publicly. There are real risks with being vocal about their [perceived] 'wealth'.
To tell you the truth, I wanted to enter the "I don't mine" option, but it seems that would dilute the outcome of the original poll. So this poll is meant for those who (want to) mine.